tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post4487532774064955854..comments2024-01-14T15:52:43.644-05:00Comments on The Thirteenth Depository - A Wheel of Time Blog: Memory of Light Read-through #43: Chapter 37—The Last Battle Part 4Dominichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17610557134981958201noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-35915118278688577532018-10-08T10:53:48.501-04:002018-10-08T10:53:48.501-04:00For me it is head cannon that both Bela and Egwene...For me it is head cannon that both Bela and Egwene are heroes of the horn.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13832427626326343515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-90513757488662143272018-05-25T20:42:32.259-04:002018-05-25T20:42:32.259-04:00Just want to say that I appreciate your blog. It ...Just want to say that I appreciate your blog. It is very interesting and enjoy reading it. I always look forward to reading it. Thank you for the time you put into it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-10504394354416483392018-05-22T03:30:42.591-04:002018-05-22T03:30:42.591-04:00Loial has bits of RJ in him, but maybe some other ...Loial has bits of RJ in him, but maybe some other characters have different bits or aspects of his life. After all, RJ said that each female character has some aspect of Harriet.<br /><br />I agree that the image of Mat was very well done. The anecdote may be a well known one (though I have only seen it on that one blog post, unlike the one about him being called Ganesh in Vietnam.<br /><br />I agree that Egwene's death was shocking, and all the more ironic after the Ajah Heads started sweating at how long a reign she would have. She was but a brilliant comet in the end. <br /><br />Lan always found death far more easy than life, in many ways; a result of his tragic childhood. And so it was apt that he got to live, and Nynaeve to teach him how to do it happily. Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14767984732078916662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-55395556349482615732018-05-22T01:38:08.245-04:002018-05-22T01:38:08.245-04:00Deserving a separate thought: Though I have not re...Deserving a separate thought: Though I have not reread the book all the way through yet, I have very vivid memories of my frantic, sleepless first read and the high emotional points. Most of them were in this very long chapter. Olver, Egwnene, Lan. In turns, delight, shock mixed with resigned thoughts of how right it was, and then for Lan's scene a very unexpected life after victory. <br /><br />I suspect that most people reading expected Egwene to survive and Lan to die and it was really right and great (though somewhat sad) that we got the opposite. It was fitting even as it was surprising. Lan's death had been foreshadowed so heavily it was practically laughable that he lived, and yet it worked really well. The same for Egwene backwards.She's like JFK or Lincoln, the leader that is supposed to lead us into the next great era until they are shockingly cut down. It's great writing that we don't quite suspect this until it happens. t ballnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833204375789249557.post-73434942310151971292018-05-22T01:19:15.122-04:002018-05-22T01:19:15.122-04:00I have often wondered if Jordan wrote himself in a...I have often wondered if Jordan wrote himself in as Loial. Your note about the Vietnam pic/Mat made me consider this in a new light. I also have wondered if my feeling about this was partly due to Sanderson manufacturing it during the writing of the final books, or if it was something he either picked up on or was hinted at by Harriet and he reinforced in rather deft ways here. <br /><br />That I have to wonder is a tribute to Sanderson's handling of a thankless task.t ballnoreply@blogger.com